live off the fat of the land

You figure to live off the fat of the land?"

"With an army our size we could live off the fat of the land anywhere."

They had lived off the fat of the land.

Both no-marks who have lived off the fat of the land all their lives.

"Archie's been living off the fat of the land; I'm here to give him his pension plan."

I know we slept many times; and we lived off the fat of the land.

He takes over, ousts the legal owners, and set himself up to live off the fat of the land, with you as his technical chief.

"You're getting married in six months and then you'll be able to do your own housekeeping and live off the fat of the land yourself."

The album title comes from the old English phrase 'living off the fat of the land', which means living well or being wealthy.

Who can quarrel with that - if you're more interested in Woody Allen than living off the fat of the land.

The people who are living almost scot-free in rent-controlled apartments are living off the fat of the land.

Central to the Andropov plan was the mobilization of both the intelligentsia and "masses" against the 18 million party members who had been living off the fat of the land.

Secure from attack, living off the fat of the land, in his mind's eye he saw it all: those mice and the woodland creatures enslaved, living just to serve him.

In the Orne, as this inland region of Normandy is known, you can literally live off the fat of the land, on butter and cream and Camembert.

"Mrs. Ram, Mrs. Ram," he said gently, "surely you cannot think it is our purpose in life to become rich and to live off the fat of the land?

He'd never had a good word to say for them before, a bunch o' thieving magpies, he always said, living off the fat of the land while he had to pay taxes to keep 'em.

Nothing is sacred; when the Princess of Wales bought a Mercedes in February he accused the Royals of 'showing contempt for British workers while living off the fat of the land'.

This approach also allowed the French to maintain an offensive long enough that these vast armies might commandeer war material from territory taken from their enemies and, to a certain extent, "live off the fat of the land".

Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age, when the pace of life was slow, when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers, in vast numbers, worked that land.

You know as well as I do that the Wharfmasters are living off the fat of the land on their company profits, but how are the dockers expected to support their wives and kids on seventy-two shillings and sixpence a week?'

But both officials left no doubt that McKeon was leaving because of the association's running feud with the Governor, who has assailed its executives as self-indulgent businessmen who were living off the fat of the land without returning enough money to the state from race-track gambling.

The soldiers fare much better than the workers, and the members of the Zabo live well, for everyone is afraid of them; even the army officers and those highly placed politically live little better, though they live off the fat of the land, if there is any fat in Kapara.

If that doesn't sound challenging enough for you, how about kayaking around the Sound of Arisaig, camping on an uninhabited island and living off the fat of the land (think campfire meals of shore-gathered mussels with seaweed) and a nip of whisky to ward off the evening chill.

A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious, corrupt, cynical and generally 'nauseating.these saintly people, living off the fat of the land, try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal!'